On Authenticity
The rise of generative Large Language Models has made me write less, as the friction to write has reduced and also the large scale LLM generated slop across the internet made it less appealing to indulge in the hobby. Everywhere I look now are Claude-coded websites with all too perfect writing that takes away the joy of both reading and writing. I didn't think much about the loss of this creative faculty for me, until someone reached out to me after reading this website and their words were “I wondered if anyone maintaining a blog like this could be bad” and then it clicked. In an era of cookie cutter websites and content, being authentic has its own currency. Artisanal typos, unstructured thoughts and unclear human thought looping, things that an LLMs can't do without sounding fake which I can do without much effort.
Maintaining one's own website, curating thoughts and ideas as they come by and being intentional in purpose are all the things missing from an LLM generated website, which are by default stolen words gambled through a predictive model. As the peak times of LLMs use come near with every passing day, the one tool the ordinary pleb has in their hands is to communicate more without the help of LLMs tools and be more unapologetically themselves, authenticity in the end is what breaks the computer, as its one space where it cannot be human.
In a future after we've all come to terms with the rise and fall of LLMs, we will look back at the voices that remained untainted by this mass scale of machined perfection. In all that noise, you will hear me saying hello.
Note: I refrained from saying AI and used LLM instead because I didn't want to fall for the marketing hype. There is no AI, the machine is not intelligent, yet.